Overview

• Helmut Marko says Red Bull expects to be back at the front with Max Verstappen next season and argues a return to winning would quiet transfer talk linking him to Mercedes.
• Marko adds that internal data on the 2026 car is encouraging on the chassis side, setting that optimism against recent leadership and supplier changes around the team.
• Oscar Piastri leads Lando Norris by nine points entering Zandvoort, with local coverage noting Norris’s three wins in the past four races and a tightening McLaren duel.
• 1980 world champion Alan Jones criticizes Norris’s mental resilience in new interviews, contrasting it with Piastri’s composure during their in-house title fight.
• Toto Wolff renews his public attacks on former Red Bull boss Christian Horner, saying he ‘needed someone to hate,’ while Car and Driver reports Cadillac is exploring a Superlicence pathway for Colton Herta and has lined up veterans Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Pérez.